I’ve been reading all the bashing of Rick Santorum on social issues lately, and it’s been pretty hilarious: “Santorum’s a radical Christian who opposes fundamental freedoms in the United States and elsewhere!” “Santorum’s number-one priority is what we’re looking at on a computer screen!” “Santorum thinks that God needs to be in everyone’s business 24/7!” “Santorum wants to undo all the progress we’ve made since the ’50s!” “Santorum wants to appoint an Attorney General to make sure that federal obscenity laws are enforced—”
Um…why shouldn’t laws be enforced? Isn’t that the Constitutional point of a president—to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”?
Okay…let’s make something absolutely clear: for all the rambling about Rick allegedly wanting to look into your bedrooms and tell you how to run your life — Rick has made it absolutely clear, over and over and over, that he has never, nor will he ever, take part in any policy to forbid, say, contraception. As a devout Catholic, he doesn’t believe that it’s moral—but he doesn’t think it should be illegal.
Frankly, that seems to be a common misconception with Leftists — and many libertarians, while we’re at it: “You social conservatives want to impose your beliefs on us!”
Excuse me, “Progressives”… all we’ve been doing is pointing out the effect that your beliefs have had on our society. What did the sexual revolution bring us? Oh, let’s see…HIV, AIDS, and so on; rampant teenage pregnancies and massive upsurges in single parenthood— and along with that, a permanent underclass of people who’d never had the proper guidance for life; countless deadbeat fathers who abandon women and leave them to abort their unborn children.
That’s the “progress since the ’50s” that Rick Santorum wants America to “roll back”. Is that so wrong? And again — we’re not talking about “checking up on what everyone else is doing”. We’re talking about education — calling out this so-called “progress”. And you would compare this to racism?
No one’s talking about criminalizing contraceptives. But the fact that people with Rick’s viewpoint are so readily smeared and trashed by their opponents should shed light on who is really “imposing” their points of view on others….
“Rick Santorum is against gay marriage. Well, excuse me, Mr. Bigot: It’s unfair that heterosexual couples get tax exemptions, but homosexual couples can’t!”
Interestingly enough, Ron Paul has an excellent point on this: why should marriage be a problem for the government, period? Tax exemption, indeed! To be blunt, the tax code is far too complicated already. Replace it with the Fair-Tax, for example—and you won’t need to whine about “tax exempt status”!
(Indeed, I find it amusing that one of our commentators here, though a staunch Ron Paul supporter, seems to want to have his cake and eat it, too: he knows Ron Paul wants to get rid of the tax code that has all those exemptions, and yet said commentator calls for more tinkering of the code — along with higher taxes on the rich, but that’s another story….)
Still, while we have this code: isn’t the whole point of the term “civil unions” so that gay couples can get that status, without the cultural impact of re-defining marriage? No? Well, then, what was the point of inventing the term in the first place?
While we’re on the subject of homosexuality, scientists still have yet to find a “homosexual gene”. And when your “evidence” is a Wikipedia article (which frankly grasps at straws like “typical characteristics” to make its point)—just remember: Wiki’s not a credible source for your college paper. It shouldn’t be held as the standard for debates, either. For now, I’m with Dr. James Dobson: it might be a product of one’s surroundings, influences, etc. — but such doesn’t take away one’s responsibility of conduct.
“There — see? You want to tell us how to run our lives!”
Pipe down. It’s not about imposing lifestyles. It’s about the effects lifestyles have on our culture. You can’t look at the rampant rotgut, say, in the celebrity realm and tell me “They’re hurting no one but themselves!” They’re hurting their families, and their friends.
All Rick is doing is promoting greater awareness of this simple fact: cultural immorality breeds cultural instability, like it or not.